Russula xerampelina

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Russula xerampelina
Conservation status
Secure
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi Division: Basidiomycota Class: Homobasidiomycetae Subclass: Hymenomycetes Order: Russulales Family: Russulaceae Genus: Russula Species: R. xerampelina
Binomial name
Russula xerampelina (Schaeff.) Fr.
Synonyms
Russula erythropus Pelt.

Russula xerampelina, also known as the Shrimp mushroom, is a basidiomycete mushroom of the genus Russula.

[edit] Description

Mature specimens have a characteristic odour of boiled crustacean. The taste is mild. The cap is 6–12 cm wide, domed, flat, or with a slightly depressed centre, sticky. Colour purple to wine-red, darker towards the centre of the cap. Sporeprint creamy-yellow. Grows under fir or, more rarely, pine trees. Gills have a mild to rather bitter taste, narrowly spaced, and turn creamy-yellow on ageing specimens. Stipe 4–8 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, cylindrical, white or sometimes somewhat reddish or brownish.

[edit] References

• "Danske storsvampe. Basidiesvampe" [a key to Danish basidiomycetes] J.H. Petersen and J. Vesterholt eds. Gyldendal. Viborg, Denmark, 1990. ISBN 87-01-09932-9

[edit] External links

• Rogers Mushrooms - Russula xerampelina
• “Russula xerampelina” by Robert Sasata, Healing-Mushrooms.net, February, 2008.